Exofiction and Enactivist Narratives in Contemporary French Literature by Larissa E. Muravieva

“…The proliferation of hybrid genres is a notable trend in contemporary French literature. Alongside autofiction, new hybrids are emerging in French literature, modelled on a mixture of fiction and factual genre. …”
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Les chamanes contemporains – figures d’instabilité by Anne-Sophie Donnarieix

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Quand le récit de soi révèle la fonction élucidante de l’écriture by Anne Strasser

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De la marginalidad a la comunidad: el feminismo populista de Virginie Despentes / From Marginality to Community: Virginie Despentes’ Populist Feminism by Isabelle Marc

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Terrain vague : Poétique des espaces urbains intermédiaires dans la littérature française contemporaine by Wolfram Nitsch

“…Their borders are systematically transformed and, with the help of typical examples from contemporary French literature, they offer new historical paradigms. …”
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Guyotat éden histoire enfer by Thierry Tremblay

“…Considered amongst the most radical works of contemporary French literature, the work of Pierre Guyotat is also one that, in many respects, addresses History, for the novels' themes are set in a contemporary post-colonial world, – but it is also historical in its attempt to reach a language of a greater "materiality". …”
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De femme à écrivaine engagée : Marie Darrieussecq et le cas de La Mer à l’envers by Sofia Tincani

“…What is interesting, is that not only does the writer’s commitment unfold in the text on a thematic level; an in-depth analysis of her work shows indeed that the novel bares a formal construction (both structural and narratological) in line with the critical discourse around the forms of commitment in the contemporary French literature, recently studied and described by many critics, notably by Dominique Viart. …”
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Élise Hugueny-Léger, Projections de soi. Identités et images en mouvement dans l'autofiction by Maaike Koffeman

“…Élise Hugueny-Léger, a researcher of contemporary French literature and a specialist of the work of Annie Ernaux, departs from the idea that autofictional writing is a form of psychological projection, wherein a self-image is being cast onto the page. …”
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À la folie de Joy Sorman by Julia Pont, Sam Rachebœuf-Allard

“…However, it is more of a field study, part of the non-fictional writings which have flourished in contemporary French literature. This paper aims at demonstrating that this narrative is above all a book of bodies and voices, whose writing attempts to become an echo chamber. …”
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Gammes de mémoire by Dominique Viart

“…I propose to present an analysis of the “ranges of memory” that contemporary French literature makes us discover, focusing on the most original ones, according to a double approach: methods of execution and works which deploy them. …”
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Questioning Cézanne across Sightlines: Balzac, Zola, and Merleau-Ponty by Véronique M. Fóti

“…Cézanne was an avid reader of both classical Latin and contemporary French literature, but he sought, in his maturity, to dissociate painting from the inspiration of literature. …”
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Représentations de l’absence et du manque : de La Dispersion au Livre brisé de Serge Doubrovsky by Nurit Levy

“…Author and academic, Serge Doubrovsky is an important figure in contemporary French literature. His numerous publications foretell the emergence of a new literary concept, positioning him in the domain of post-modernism with the emergence of auto-fiction. …”
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L.N. Tolstoy and his French-speaking Correspondents Opinions on Art. Reception of the tractate “What is art?” in France by Lydmila V. Gladkova (Kalyuzhnaya)

“…The treatise’s author follows the classification of contemporary French literature, offered by J. Huret, author of the book “Enquête sur l'évolution littéraire” (Paris, 1891). …”
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La révolution espagnole de 1936 dans Pas pleurer de Lydie Salvayre by Corinne Grenouillet

“…Seuil, 2014) belongs to one of the most prolific sub-genres of contemporary French literature, the narrative of filiation, which presents itself as an inquiry into an ascendant. …”
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A Critical Comparison of Jami’s Anecdotes in Baharestan and Minimalist Stories by Khalil Baygzadeh, Mohammad Arta

“…Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature. University of Nebraska Press.…”
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